Ruth 1:1-5 MSG

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1
Once upon a time - it was back in the days when judges led Israel - there was a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah left home to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

2
The man's name was Elimelech; his wife's name was Naomi; his sons were named Mahlon and Kilion - all Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They all went to the country of Moab and settled there.

3
Elimelech died and Naomi was left, she and her two sons.

4
The sons took Moabite wives; the name of the first was Orpah, the second Ruth. They lived there in Moab for the next ten years.

5
But then the two brothers, Mahlon and Kilion, died. Now the woman was left without either her young men or her husband.

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